borders turkey fires in syria again in response to a mortar attack as the turkish prime minister says it will provoke. the return of the republic crowds rally for venetian independence frustrated with rome is calling for the thousand years make a comeback. hundreds demand an end to u.s.

drone strikes in pakistan with a two day march right into the heart of the strike zone. good to have you with us here on r t our top story turkey's launched a fresh artillery strike on syria in response to another mortar attack from across the border began its shelling on wednesday in retaliation for a syrian mortar round that killed five turkish civilians our middle east correspondent paula slitter has the latest. we do know that the mortar bomb landed in the countryside in turkish that territory so it is possible that no one in fact was injured or killed we also have no word on who was responsible for the later mortar from syria what i can tell you though is that almost immediately turkey responded and went on the offensive meaning that we have the situation along the turkish syrian border intensifying it's not a back on wednesday when

a mortar bomb fired from syria killed five turkish citizens and since then the situation has nearly escalated we're hearing from the turkish prime minister that he does not want a situation of war but he has warned the syrians not to make a fatal mistake and that is a quote from him and taste his resolve the syrians will decide have apologized for those what is interesting is that you need to realize that these waters that are being fired from syria into turkey all close range missiles now they are coming from territory that is controlled by the syrian rebels so this is why many are suggesting that perhaps they are being fired on purpose they're being fired to provoke the situation and create a false flag operation now the reasoning behind this could be that turkey for some time has been calling for a no fly zone it might be provoked into calling for foreign intervention and for nato to get involved in fact we've heard some rebel leaders in exile call for this

although the majority of excels in the majority of syrians are against this but the situation intensifying on the ground and everyone concerned that we could see this border tension into some kind of regional conflict the battle certainly is intensifying the latest there's a video that has now been released by the syrian rebels we have no confirmation as to the or the patient of the video but in it it does claim that the rebels will start executing forty eight muslims on the run if damascus does not meet the demands of the syrian rebels now there has been dialogue and some kind of negotiations. wow between the syrian government and the the iranian government at the same time just outside damascus the rebels have shot down a syrian haiti cup to govern the ship but this comes as shelling continues between both sides in several cities of all into the country russia has come to the fore in the mediate tree roll it has said that it hopes the united nations arab envoy to

syria will be coming to moscow and they said this month and they too they hope that both sides will express caution must go also saying that these cross border incidents are completely unacceptable. for turkey's parliament authorized troops to launch cross border operations against syria the country's prime minister warned a girl will not shy away from war if provoked author and journalist often written see things damascus will retaliate if pulled into a broader conflict. this kind of flashpoint is the kind of flashpoint that can create world war three nature some people have it this is a false flag operation we're getting these reports this continued as would a reaction from the jets government ok so anyone will face political problems at home but then why were they speaking with the iranians talking about how this needs a diplomatic solution not a military one if turkey continued under the agreement. this would rule in

a way to situational why do i feel as your old war and risks expanding it the people of syria and the people of turkey will not benefit from us nato says that they'll defend any nato member if turkey continue like this syria might see itself getting increasingly desperate and retaliate with full force then it's up to the united states and britain european and nato allies to figure out what to do what we need urgently right now is a peace conference set me it's up to china and russia because they're the only people stopping a full scale war the kind of war that will only help the forces it looks like such as al qaida united states is again supporting al-qaeda and turkey who stood to one should know much better than to try and help out guy and he's been doing his best to fight the forces of his presence. turning eyes to europe now the republic of venice says they're planning for a glorious comeback supporters of venetian independence from italy demanding for

the region to go it alone tired of being saddled with what they say is rome's austerity it's the latest in a number of european regions considering independence including scotland in the u.k. and catalonia in spain professor a lot of each hope that sati who separatist party organized the rally believes venice will fare much better on its own. nor in the situation worse than a colony because there's worse. in italy it's the highest in the world than. our services are already extremely poor we have about twenty billion a sin from our regional resources each year and that's how bearable and. a couple of days ago there was a siege of st mark's belt powered by four workers and there's this situation here in van it so it's it's almost explosive sold so they we and the thousands of people who have gathered in their regional government for sure in italy we're not the only

ones there it's being sort of the in yeah i have strong little movements for a florist were the best organized but soon after you know it's going to happen to other regions severely. more stories features and videos a click away on our team dot com right now that he again study the european food safety authority rejects a controversial report by british scientists when he genetically modified corn for cancer click on line for details plus. a radical muslim cleric abu hamza and four other terror suspects extradited to the u.s. after losing their appeal in the u.k. what they claim is a lack of evidence in the case i don't more on r.t. dot com. switching gears now it turns out walking your dog or feeding the birds could land you in a spot of trouble in many london parks civil rights groups have accused the city of cracking down on personal freedoms despite there being a little information on what activities are banned and where our first reports not

even the police who might be after you if you break the rules. here in this park in london if your found drinking alcohol or throwing a ball or even feeding the pigeons you could inadvertently be committing a criminal or civil offense the prize will serve a lot of people the band in london map shows a whopping four hundred thirty five provisions lines aimed at tackling and she say she behavior the might of been a good policy idea in theory has local people say and it up a very bad policy in practice meaning hardline crackdowns on soft this misdemeanors disconcertingly many bars in london have now hired private contractors to carry out the enforcement of these fines phil morris knows all about the after his local council hired at school services he received an eighty pound penalty for dropping a cigarette butt and that he maintains he didn't know it was illegal he refused to

pay two for weeks later. so just two are ex for the private security and surveillance of the main providers a so-called in full sprint offices in the u.k. contracted by some local councils first off they get it out with cameras and uniforms but their tactics of pursuing these fines often seem far from professional was. we are phil's local council for their response they told these new offices back up for the public with the actions of the minority. in the fouls. and not get paid unless the issue of fine appropriately and surprising that the

areas where we have been hired. increase in the number of fines that a receipt and there's now whether that is or ethical becomes ability of the transparency i recently dealt in the home affairs select committee which looks at these issues with the case of the london bar of new and which has law enforcement officers who are in fact council officials but dressed up like police. commissioners going to look into it because it's it's actually i think a criminal activity to pretend to be a police officer when you're not and i'm very concerned about how that trend is going i think in the past it would be that people knew the law that was reasonable and so long as you weren't creating a problem then you could do what you like but increasingly it seems that that is no longer the case these findings may be surprising to some but the truth is these types of laws in offenses have been creeping up on us the some time now and they're actually growing in number so also the moment you can enjoy the parks in london but

if you do you know. there are. riot police in bahrain fired tear gas and water cannons at anti-government protesters after a funeral march for activists who died in custody turned violent demonstrators accuse the government of denying the man treatment but the authorities claim he died of a blood disease. crowds were trying to reach their former square in the capital manama now heavily guarded by police protesters threw firebombs in iraq says tear gas canister. as were hurled at them by officers the sunni monarchy has been cracking down on the she opposition for some twenty months now activists are calling for equal rights and the release of political prisoners including the prominent human rights activists who had no regime currently serving three years in prison for attending an illegal rally former bahraini member of parliament say had had. we says certain states only get involved when of benefits

them. the problem and the devil is stunned which practice by all those who sit and john trees. then they do can say i'm on those regimes who have some. let's say we each relationship with them or probably they consider them as enemies but like oh it was it's a product of the system they have roots off relationships they give them some let's say support. as. they take some first facilities and they have the only throw out a country's down so why ignore the world what's happening here old though it's not clear. what's happening somewhere else. later on r t a fight against u.s. drone attacks hundreds of activists march across pakistan led by a former cricket star turned opposition politician and

a destructive strike. as venezuela gears up for a presidential vote it's long standing. people one holding the reins of power for another six years. it's perched atop a jaw and the view from the kremlin stretches as far as the eye can see. for a city to siberia for centuries. it lost its economic importance even before it was bypassed but a chance a bear in railway but a spiritual center. scenes like these are a yearly occurrence thousands of worship as implicity will to commemorate the baptism of jesus.

in the fifteen eighty s. the russians had only just conquered siberia taking it from the muslims. surrounded by enemies to be their stronghold constructed on top of the city but soon enough it became an economic siberian oil of its time bringing in a third of the state revenue but the location head of the says for the russians the russian. a revolt against the eight hundred twenty five known as the decembrists. there they created a replica high society adopting the latest fashions as soon as they came out or at least once they made it from paris to siberia. but the city also serves up some bit of irony for the russian royal family after the bolshevik revolution. this is the office was nicholas the second spend most of the last year of his life his whole

family had been exiled here they led a fairly comfortable existence this was a big house but they weren't allowed to see visitors or go outside themselves whilst leaving this ordinary normal countryside lifestyle they even have those of us cape but within the year the czar and his family would be dead. to the. technology innovation all those developments around russia we've gone to the future covered. by horse. by tractor. by car for the road. as a carpenter. as a stove setter. as a farmer. as an assistant. as

a friend. as a relative. delivering post and delivering. thanks for staying with us here on r t sixteen minutes past the hour now hundreds of peace activists have joined a two day march in pakistan against u.s. drone strikes in the country the convoy which is traveling from islamabad to south waziristan is being led by cricket legend imran khan who since become an opposition politician the region is a hotbed of taliban militancy and a major focus of the u.s. strikes a political activist

a while but all the things the rally is supported by the broader pakistani public. lords. of that region have welcomed in their own need assistance that is being provided by the government of sound which does not want to open this up to exposure because for the past five years they've been hiding the fact that bones have been attacking this region on the on the public front that you deny it but on private behind the doors with the us government they actually accept the fact just in a simple attack on the energy and unfortunately for the past five years our government has actually bought into the american war on terror the american war has now become our was and they should be should catch on all of these terrorists that are doing it but unfortunately not able not able to handle the nomic affairs of the country let alone this terrorism issue that has been before the. us defense secretary leon panetta has called on afghanistan's president to thank u.s. troops rather than criticize them he was responding to hamad karzai his complaints

this thursday that washington's failing to go after militants based in neighboring pakistan this fall on the eve of the eleventh anniversary since nato forces invaded the country antiwar activists don de bar thinks the alliance is simply not welcome in afghanistan. the united states has a blind spot to the fact that people tend to have an affinity for their national sovereignty that doesn't disappear just because their country is occupied by the united states and you have this manifest in afghanistan to the point where it's now obvious that if you hand an afghani comprador soldier a weapon and show them how to use it they turn it on the american soldier that handed it to them the people of afghanistan want the united states out and it's a natural thing for that to occur and the united states just doesn't see that one of the goals of the us imperial project is to where they can't completely dominate

a place leave the people at each other's throats while they carry off the resources and so there's agitation for that that's put into play as the united states enters these countries what will happen in two thousand and fourteen is the afghanis will have an opportunity to settle their own national issues themselves without an occupying army directing the effort. today of campaign silence in venezuela ahead of a tightly contested presidential vote the election will reveal how many remain loyal to the outspoken socialist leader who go charges his opponent a young lawyer and staunch critic of the government is a suspected to give him a close race at the polls are has more from caracas. there's no question who these venezuelans will be voting for comic tobar seventh. we are here because we support our president chavez he does many things to help us housing education programs helping the poor everything here has gotten

a lot better because of him everything has changed. there red shirts brand them is the lifeblood of the venezuelan president's leftist movement through out his fourteen years in power for the hundreds of thousands of supporters who gathered in caracas on thursday the message was clear they want six more years of hell comment on. his supporters say that chavez is the country's first president to genuinely care about the lower class. chavez is the punishment to the rich and the window of hope to make. them. under the banner of socialism for the twenty first century chavez has pumped hundreds of billions of petro dollars into the economy and government run aid programs along with earning him popular support poverty has fallen from fifty percent in one thousand nine hundred nine to around thirty percent last year yet life in this country is far from ideal and with the plague of unemployment crime and corruption many venezuelans are now saying it's time for

shoppers to go buddy i'm one of those who voted for showbiz but he's time has passed and we need a change. in this race change means a vote for opposition leader in the us a forty year old lawyer who unlike chavez enjoyed a privileged upbringing. the son of a wealthy family that controls a media conglomerate and a chain of movie theaters. supporters by promising to combat climate unemployment and corruption but opponents have charged the company this is deliberately hiding his real economic goals the candidates are. they could be the chavez is demanding keep these come from this kind of power the works trying to change that and the other candidate in reading your feelings is a man of the wealthy or the elite of oligarchy who would implement privatization only. staring he says it's a choice between two radically different worldviews a referendum and venezuela's socialist experiment. into the shop.

at the way of. action the captain of the art scene or the. americans wall so head to the polls next month to decide whether to keep barack obama as their president or start a new but while some critics say the u.s. electoral system fails to give citizens a real choice many voters themselves seem to be growing bored of the ballot our very own new york resident laurie hardest hit the streets of the big apple to find out more. the two thousand and twelve presidential elections why are they so boring this week let's talk about that. so tired of all of it you know i mean it's almost like it's more than twenty four hours of coverage on everything you know no matter what happens and nothing happened exactly having said that i think obama's going to win

do you think he believes in himself as much as he did four years ago because he seems kind of tired he seems like he's a little frustrated i think he's more tired of mitt romney just all of this like he just wants to get it over to november and just like ok give me you know my polls and let me when president obama was in with the first african-american president i was so exciting no it's boring me again i don't know if there's going to be as much of a turnout for voters this year are you going to vote. we're talking about the election you know. i'm not american you don't let me now yeah we don't we don't let a lot of americans vote to you apparently why do you want to run don't you think either candidate can get it done i think there's too much corruption in the government and the bush kerry kerry yeah i was just like i like which one do i like the least ok i'll use the other a vote of the other one yes so it's kind of the same thing as two thousand and four that maybe i just like one of those here but i feel like they just wants to be to

get it over with and they just want to hear more details on the plans yeah and get it over with and get on with it and do something for it saying jack what could they do to snatch things up not that smart. yet they're the smart ones with all the millions of dollars do you think they get put on a better show right for you know whether or not you think this election is boring the bottom line is we only have about a month until it's finally over and we can all gladly move on. turning now to some other stories making global headlines for the first time since twenty five and north korean soldiers succeeded in defecting to south korea across the heavily armed border the soldiers shot dead two fellow soldiers while crossing the zone he reportedly used a loudspeaker to let south korean border guards know his intention to defect after the killings. of human a radical islam is suspected of

a grenade attack on the jewish market was killed during one of several counter terror operations throughout france and germany sydney is thought to have injured one person in an attack on a jewish community center last month during the raid police also detained ten others allegedly connected with the wave of the anti semitic attacks that have hit the country. the pope's former butler has been handed a teen month sentence after he stole then sold who had just sold on to a journalist the pontiff private letters hello gabriele said he would not appeal the verdict he is set to serve his sentence under house arrest but a powerful spokesman said pope benedict the sixteenth will most likely pardon his former aide and i profile leak was exposed when an italian journalist published a book accusing the leaders of the roman catholic church of numerous intrigues corruption and homo sexual affairs. so in minors in how they gathered for a rally against the dismissal of twelve thousand of their colleagues they were sacked after staging

a strike demanding better pay and conditions protesters are also mourning their colleagues killed by police and brutal clashes that started two months ago the death toll in the ongoing deadly unrest has so far reached forty eight. coming up a look at the scars of conflict still left in vietnam almost four decades after former president richard nixon announced the u.s. would end its war there that's coming up after a short break. download the official ati application cellphone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch ati any time of the.

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